The once-beloved children’s author is working herself up over Scotland’s new bias law.
U.K. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has jumped to defend J.K. Rowling, who is once again using her one wild and precious life to post obsessively about transgender women instead of doing literally anything else with her hundreds of millions of dollars.
The Harry Potter author took to X, formerly Twitter, on April 1 to share her thoughts on Scotland’s new Hate Crime Act, which went into effect the same day. The law criminalizes “stirring up hatred” related to age, disability, religion, sexual orientation, trans identity, or being intersex, as the BBC reported. “Stirring up hatred” is further defined as communicating or behaving in a way “that a reasonable person would consider to be threatening or abusive” against a protected group. The offense is punishable by imprisonment of up to seven years, a fine, or both.
In response to the legislation, Rowling posted a long thread naming several prominent trans women in the U.K., including Mridul Wadhwa, the CEO of the Edinburgh Rape Crisis Centre, and activist Munroe Bergdorf. Since it was April Fool’s day, Rowling decided to commemorate it by sarcastically affirming the womanhood of all the people she named in her thread. In the same breath that she said that a convicted child predator was “rightly sent to a women’s prison,” she also called out a number of trans women making anodyne comments about inclusion, seemingly implying that trans identity is inherently predatory.
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- hydroptic ( @hydroptic@sopuli.xyz ) English36•6 months ago
Hopefully the cops oblige her, but I’m pretty sure she’s too rich to actually experience any consequences.
- livus ( @livus@kbin.social ) 27•6 months ago
They’ve already said it doesn’t meet the criminal threshold and they will not be arresting her.
Bitter old troll still got her 15 minutes of fame I guess.
- hydroptic ( @hydroptic@sopuli.xyz ) English2•6 months ago
Ah, figures. Thanks for the source!
Hopefully it’s only a matter of time she does something that’ll cross the threshold.
- RamblingPanda ( @RamblingPanda@lemmynsfw.com ) English1•6 months ago
She got more than enough fame already.
- nocturne ( @nokturne213@sopuli.xyz ) English16•6 months ago
Do it.
- soggy_kitty ( @soggy_kitty@sopuli.xyz ) English7•6 months ago
Do you really want to live in a police state where they do this?
- jak ( @jak@sopuli.xyz ) English16•6 months ago
Prevent hate speech? Yes, desperately
- soggy_kitty ( @soggy_kitty@sopuli.xyz ) English3•6 months ago
Wait you think arresting her is proportionate?
- jak ( @jak@sopuli.xyz ) English10•6 months ago
If she sows hate speech? Yes.
- soggy_kitty ( @soggy_kitty@sopuli.xyz ) English4•6 months ago
Quote exactly some hate speech by her which is deserving of being locked up and link sources
Not stuff which is considered offensive, but quotes which genuinely deserve jail time
A proportionate response is banning of her social media accounts and any of her products which create revenue, not FUCKING JAIL.
So please, quote away.
- jak ( @jak@sopuli.xyz ) English3•6 months ago
if
That’s a quote from my comment that you replied to.
- soggy_kitty ( @soggy_kitty@sopuli.xyz ) English2•6 months ago
Holy shit really? You’re going with that?
You just turned the conversation on its head and then accused me of doing the same? hypocritical behaviour
Wait you think arresting her is proportionate?
If she sows hate speech? Yes.
What you really meant to say is: “no, arresting her isn’t proportionate, but she should be arrested if she does something she hasn’t done”
- Lad ( @AFC1886VCC@reddthat.com ) English10•6 months ago
Dedicated her life to drumming up transphobic hate. Pathetic
- YⓄ乙 ( @yoz@aussie.zone ) English9•6 months ago
She got the money. No jailtime for her. If she was poor she would already br in jail by now.
- Possibly linux ( @possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip ) English7•6 months ago
That law sounds terrible.
- ArugulaZ ( @ArugulaZ@kbin.social ) 5•6 months ago
Quick, somebody go back in time and convince JK Rowling to write about a raccoon who shoots rainbow sparkles out of his butt!
- bilboswaggings ( @bilboswaggings@sopuli.xyz ) English5•6 months ago
You have to wonder how a guy named Rishi Sunak justifies supporting her.
But I guess it’s done so that people hate on trans people instead of people with a similar name or skin color as his. When in reality everyone just hates him because of his politics and personality
- NigelFrobisher ( @NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone ) English8•6 months ago
His ethnicity is “billionaire”.
- umbrella ( @umbrella@lemmy.ml ) English4•6 months ago
she knows this will not happen
- kingthrillgore ( @KingThrillgore@lemmy.ml ) English4•6 months ago
You can’t arrest someone for being an idiot usually
- The Cuuuuube ( @Cube6392@beehaw.org ) English5•6 months ago
Sure you can. Manslaughter, reckless endangerment, contributing to the delinquency of a minor. All have a component of “sure you didn’t do this maliciously, but FUCK you should have known better, moron”
- Kedly ( @Kedly@lemm.ee ) English2•6 months ago
Hmm, ok. I need to start sorting by top instead of Hot